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Comment by wyldfire | Hacker News Reader

> And Gitweb itself should present you with some basic instructions on setting up a webkey to push code to it.

Yes, but the name of the repo itself has _RENAME_ME as its suffix and AFAICT there's no way to change it. It seems as if gitlab behaves this way too.

EDIT: ok embarassing mistake on my part, it's all clear now.

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Hi wyldfire,

I hope you don't stay embarrassed. We could improve parts of the interface, and we need feedback like this to know what people think is going on, so that we can decide how to change the interface to show people what is actually going on.

Thanks for leaving the comment and I hope you enjoy using Sandstorm!

I think in general it's related to the conceptual shift Sandstorm is trying to drive. There's a lot of touting "control of your own data" and it took a while for that to sink in for me.

I think it took so long because it's so different from what I'm used to. It seems like a powerful idea but challenging to make sure your customers' expectations are managed.

The sidebar/navbar clearly is part of the strategy, well done there. But the gulf that exists between the specific-app content pane and the sandstorm navbar is the tricky bit.

You're referring to the copy/pastable commands for setting up git, right? You can actually replace the _RENAME_ME thing (and the randomly-generated text before it) with whatever you want when you enter the command. The instructions could certainly use some work, though.

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